The Beast with a Million Eyes
The Beast with a Million Eyes aka The Unseen is a sciencefiction film about an alien able to see through the eyes of the many creatures he takes control of. It was produced and directed by David Kramarsky, although some sources say that it was codirected by Lou Placecitation needed and coproduced by Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff. The film was released in 1955 by American Releasing Corporation which later became American International Pictures.
Filming took place in Indio and the Coachella Valley, California. Corman shot 48 pages of interiors in two days at a studio in La Ciegna. The Beast with a Million Eyes was a nonunion film originally titled The Unseen with Lou Place set to direct. After one days filming, the union threatened to shut down the film unless everyone signed with the Guild. Roger Corman, who was producing, took over the film as director and replaced the cinematographer with Floyd Crosby however Corman took no official credit. Another version of the story has Corman allocating directing duties to Dave Kramsarsky, his associate director on Five Guns West.Film historian Leonard Maltin called The Beast with a Million Eyes, Imaginative though poorly executed scifi melodrama with desert setting a group of people is forced to confront an alien that can control an unlimited number of animals, hence the title. He further described the film as, an early Roger Corman production that features Paul Blaisdells first movie monster. In 2007 MetroGoldwyn Mayer distributed The Beast with a Million Eyes as part of its Midnight Movies catalog on a doublefeature DVD shared with The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues 1955. ........
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